About BotaQi
A French house devoted to the traditional Chinese pharmacopoeia — selecting with exacting standards, handing on with respect.
A house devoted to the Chinese pharmacopoeia
BotaQi was born of a simple conviction: the traditional Chinese pharmacopoeia deserves to be handed on with rigour, clarity and respect. From France, we select and ship the herbs, blends, teas and equipment of this thousand-year-old tradition — for those discovering it as much as for those who know it already.
The name says the intention: Bota, the plant; Qi (气), the breath. Two worlds this house sets out to join — the botany one weighs, packs and traces, and the reading the Chinese tradition offers of it.
Handing on a thousand-year-old knowledge, to the standards of today.
A traceable selection
Every line in the catalogue comes from identified and audited supply chains. We favour suppliers committed to the quality, the origin and the traceability of their plants — because a pharmacopoeia worth trusting begins with transparency about what is offered.
Orders are prepared in France with care: packed at the moment of purchase, sober packaging, dispatched within 24 to 48 working hours.
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Traceable supply chains Identified suppliers, committed to quality, origin and traceability.
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Full TCM reading Nature, flavours and Phases shown on every listing, for cultural purposes.
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Shipped from France Careful preparation, dispatched within 24 to 48 working hours.
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Packed to order Made up at the moment of purchase, so freshness is kept.
Making the tradition legible
The TCM tradition has a language of its own: thermal natures, flavours, Phases, spheres. Rather than over-simplify it, we have chosen to make it legible. Every product listing sets out these markers — Chinese name and pinyin included — and our Understanding TCM page explains them calmly, for cultural purposes.
The same care applies to search: type a name in French, in pinyin, in 汉字, in English or in Latin — the catalogue answers you in all of those languages.
Nuwa, our guide
Over BotaQi watches Nuwa, our guide. In a few questions, she reads your “inner season” according to the traditional grid of the Five Phases, then points you towards the products that resonate with it. A cultural and educational reading — never a diagnosis: Nuwa takes up no question of health.
Your reading stays in your browser: no profile is kept on our servers. And if your inner season shifts, you can take it again whenever you like.